DRIVE35 Scale-up Fund Drawdown 5Innovate UK, part of UK Research and Innovation (UKRI), will work with the Department for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade (BIST) and the Advanced Propulsion Centre UK (APC)Dashboard← Back to the catalog
DRIVE35 Scale-up Fund Drawdown 5
Innovate UK, part of UK Research and Innovation (UKRI), will work with the Department for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade (BIST) and the Advanced Propulsion Centre UK (APC) · The funder's page →
Money per project£2,500,000 – £20,000,000
Deadline4 Nov 20265 days left
How they chooseCompetition
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1Does it fit you
7 conditions
What this call funds: research, markets
Countries that may apply: United Kingdom
Consortium: you may apply alone
Who may apply: a commercial company may apply
Company size stated by the funder: Any
Sector of the call: Manufacturing
Field of work, in the funder’s own words: zero emission vehicle manufacturing
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2Money and deadline
£2,500,000 – £20,000,000
Deadline 4 Nov 2026 · 5 days left. One deadline for everyone — all applications are compared with each other.
Amount one applicant receives: £2,500,000 – £20,000,000 · ≈ €2,924,558 – €23,396,465 (our conversion · ECB daily reference rates, 2026-08-11)
How applications are chosen: competitive
3What you will need to give
13 short checks · about 6 minutes
13 short checks · about 6 minutes
· Is your business registered in the UK?
· Does your work involve any of these?
· Do you need any permits or licences for this project?
· Do you already have paying customers?
· Do you have a patent, patent application or your own technology?
· Does your product reduce greenhouse gas emissions compared with current solutions?
4The application
27 questions
«It must be up to 15 A4 pages in a single PDF or Word document, a maximum of 10 pages can include charts or diagrams. The remaining 5 pages must be written documents.»
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5After you get the money
1 condition
«In securing funding from this programme, each participant receiving a grant will pay an industrial contribution to the APC operating budget. This is set at 3.5% and is payable on each grant payment received. The cost cannot be included as an eligible cost in your application.»